Word: knowes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said the Rev. Combe: "Our plan is, I know, a bit amateurish but with a few motor cars (which we hope will be given us) and a small fleet of fast motor boats (which we are trying to get) we hope to reach even the most neglected and hardened rum runners...
...last week, in the divorce court of Judge Joseph Sabath in Chicago. An observer, not a divorce-seeker, was Mr. Rosenwald. As to how he would use his observations, he said: "I have nothing definite I can give out now. If you were a mind-reader you would know what the plans...
...wives of all the brothers Bott, Ernest's Milly was the only soft, plump, docile one. The other brothers pondered their wives' angles and acerbities, secretly envied Ernest. When he died leaving his fortune to the "Home for Fallen Women" and adding a codicil, "My wife will know why," the Bott brothers were incredulous, their wives smugly pleased...
When Byrd returned to Little America, his base, he was meditative. Finally he said: "I have named this land after the best sport and noblest person I know, one who has borne the brunt of all my adventures and to whom the credit belongs for anything I may have accomplished. This new land will be Marie Byrd Land...
...until Saturday's game, places the University six on a level of final competence with that of the championship teams of the past few years. Rising from the uncertainty of a mediocre season, it outplayed at every angle a Blue team stamped as immeasureably its superior by those who know. While the annual series is only just begun, the Harvard team has gained the psychological advantage in a foothold from which it will be dislodged with difficulty...